Q: The file I downloaded is too small, one or more filters are missing, or
I got a message like this when I downloaded:

not a valid Win32 application

not executable

not a 32 bit file

A: The file you downloaded is corrupted. This can happen repeatedly
and often does. The usual symptom is that the file has been
cut short. How short is too short?
See the Filters Download Table
for the sizes of all versions of download files in bytes.
For Windows DLLs, see the
Windows DLL download table.
If your file is smaller, it's corrupted.
Use the Explorer file manager to locate the file,
then right click the mouse on the file name. Select Properties
and you will see the file size under the General tab. The number
in parentheses is the size in bytes.

Usually downloading again takes care of the problem.
But sometimes the file is corrupted no matter how many times you
download it.
It has been reported that download helper programs sometimes cause
the problem themselves. If you have GetRight,
GoZilla or a similar download helper program running, turn it off and
try downloading again.

If that doesn't work or if you don't have any such program running,
an alternative download method, FTP, is available for all of the files.
FTP is more reliable than HTTP so try the FTP alternative by clicking
on the file name in the above table.

Q: The filters don't show up on the filters menu.
What's wrong?

A: Several things can go wrong. Here are the known causes:

The files aren't in the plugins directory.
Copy the filter files to the plugins directory. For Photoshop
typically the directory is named PLUGINS and is under the main
Photoshop directory (e.g. C:\PHOTOSHP\PLUGINS).
See the Installation Instructions
for more information about other graphics programs.

The plugins directory pointer is wrong.
In Photoshop select File - Preferences - Plug-ins from the menu bar.
You will get a dialog box which allows you to choose the
plugins directory. Note that if you change the setting, it
will not take effect until you exit and restart Photoshop.
See the Installation Instructions
for more information about other graphics programs.

Photoshop was running when you copied the filter files to
the plugins directory. You have to exit from Photoshop and
restart it for the filters to be seen.

The version of Photoshop or other graphics program you are
running doesn't support 32 bit filters. Here's a list
of which programs and versions are known to work or not work:

Program

Works

Doesn't work / unknown

Paint Shop Pro (JASC)

4.11 or greater

3.0

PhotoImpact (Ulead)

6

5 or earlier unknown

Photo Paint (Corel)

7.0 or greater

5.0 (6.0 unknown)

Photoshop (Adobe)

3.0.4 or greater

2.5, 2.5LE

Picture Publisher (Micrografx)

8.0 and 9.0

7.0 or earlier unknown

MSVCRT10.DLL is missing from your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory
This applies only to BorderMania 1.0 running with
PaintShop Pro or Corel PhotoPaint.
See below for more information.

Sometimes an upgrade of Photoshop or Windows results in
difficulties with the Photoshop intialization and preferences
files. This can be fixed by deleting the files and restarting
Photoshop which will then create new initialization and
preferences files.

For version 3 the files are in the Windows or Win95 or WinNT
directory and the names are:

Photos30.ini

Photos30.psp

For version 4 the files are in a directory named Prefs under
the Photoshop main directory. For the 4.0.1 demo version the names
are:

Photos40.ini

Adobe Photoshop 4.0 Demo Prefs.psp

For version 5 the files are in a directory named Adobe Photoshop
Settings under the Photoshop main directory. For the 5.0.2 version the
names are:

photos50.ini

Color Settings.psp

Adobe Photoshop 5 Prefs.psp

Actions Pallette.psp

Problems with some Windows 95 and Windows 98 installations
still occur sometimes even though everything above is correct.
The cause is under investigation but not much progress has been
made because the filters run properly on all of the NVR test
systems with all of the officially supported graphics programs.

Q: The BorderMania or PhotoSwizzle name shows up on the filters menu but
is greyed out. What's wrong?

A: For all versions of BorderMania other than BorderMania Pro, the filters
only work in RGB mode. BorderMania Pro and PhotoSwizzle also support
Grayscale, CMYK, Lab and Multichannel modes. If your image is in any
other unsupported mode the filters will be greyed out on the menu.
You can still use them by changing to a supported mode,
applying the filters, then changing back to the mode you were using
originally.

REGISTRATION AND LICENSE GUIDE

Q: My credit card number changed or I don't remember which one I used
to buy my license. What can I do?Q: The registration information entered is not valid. Please try again.Q: License number not recognizable. Please try again.Q: Name not recognizable. Please try again.Q: Credit card number not recognizable. Please try again.Q: License check failed. Please try again.

A: In short, for all registration problems download and install
BorderMania 5.0 and PhotoSwizzle 3.0. With the new versions it isn't
necessary to run the Registration plugin to enable them.

Q: Do these filters work with other graphics programs besides
Adobe Photoshop such as Paint Shop Pro and Photo Paint?

A: Yes. They have been tested successfully under Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0
2000, XP and Vista with various combinations of

Paint Shop Pro 4, 5 and 6 (JASC)

Photo-Paint 7 and 8 (Corel)

Photoimpact 6 (Ulead)

Photoshop 3, 4 and 5 (Adobe)

Picture Publisher 8 and 9 (Micrografx)

Other graphics programs are not officially supported. In general if the
plugins work with other programs, great! If not, they never will.

The following information is only for BorderMania 1.0.
If you downloaded BorderMania from the NVR filters page
see the installation instructions
instead.

For BorderMania 1.0 it was common that the filters wouldn't run
after installation.
The most common problem was that MSVCRT10.DLL was missing from the
WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. You can
download MSVCRT10.DLL
(107K bytes) here or from several other web sites.
See the installation instructions,
for more details or try one of the following URLs:

Q: I get weird colors or a reversal of the bottom right
corner of the image using Photo-Paint 8. What's wrong?

This was a bug which occurred when the version 2.0 filters were used
with Photo-Paint 8. The bug is fixed in BorderMania 3.0 and above.

Q: Paint Shop Pro crashes when I try to use any of the round button or
ellipse filters. What's wrong?

This was a bug which sometimes occurred when BorderMania version 2.0 or 3.0
filters were used with Paint Shop Pro.
The bug is fixed in BorderMania 3.1 and above.

Q: What does error -30101 mean?

A: This error happens with Paint Shop Pro if a BorderMania Pro or
PhotoSwizzle license was previously registered on your computer but then
the registration information was lost or corrupted. This can happen
after a Windows upgrade or service pack installation, or for who knows
how many other problems that might occur with the Windows registry.
To fix the problem download and install BorderMania 5.0 and PhotoSwizzle 3.0.
No license check is done in the new versions so the error won't happen
anymore.

Q: Some of the filters do nothing. What's wrong?Q: Notch corners does nothing. What's wrong?

A: Generally this is caused by one of the following:

You have a different layer selected than the one you
intended to select.

Some of the filters modify the alpha channel, such as
Notch Corners. This means that they must be applied to a layer,
usually with transparent background, to have an effect. Make sure
that you're working on an image layer, not a flattened image.

The filter is trying to modify the color of your image but
the area being modified is transparent so there is no change.

Your graphics program doesn't support layers and transparency.
Graphics programs that support transparency include Photoshop 3.0
and above, Paint Shop Pro 5.0 and above, and PhotoPaint 8 and above.

Notch corners is intended to work on a layer with
transparent background. The image must then be exported
in GIF89A format to take advantage of the transparency.

Q: Will there be more filters?

A: Unlikely. The products have reached the end of their development
life, pretty much as their creator has upon reaching the fatigue of
old age.

A: Yes and no. BorderMania versions 1.0 and 2.0 are still available
but are not supported. All other versions below 5.0
are no longer available or supported.
All PhotoSwizzle versions below 3.0 are also no
longer available or supported.

For the versions still available, you can download them here by either
HTTP or FTP from the table below.
Click on the file name in the HTTP column for the version you want.
Try FTP if you have trouble downloading by HTTP.

Two file types are available, .ZIP and .EXE. The .ZIP versions
are standard compressed zip archives. The .EXE versions have the same
contents as the .ZIP versions except that they are also self-extracting.
The .EXE versions are more convenient, but if you feel uncomfortable
about running self-extractors because of worries about virus infection
choose the .ZIP version instead. Note that the filters must be
extracted manually from the .ZIP version.

If you choose a .ZIP version, be aware that the newer Web browsers have
a bad habit of changing the file extension from .ZIP to .EXE when saving
the downloaded file to your disk, and you may have trouble extracting the
files from the archive.
If this happens, either download again and change the file extension from
.EXE to .ZIP when the browser asks you what to name the downloaded file,
or change the extension with File Explorer after it is downloaded.

If you download one of the old versions, please use the form below to let
us know why.
Include which operating system and graphics program you are using and a
short description of any error messages you may have encountered
trying to get the filters running.

Why did you download this version?

If other, why?:

Which operating system are you using?

If other, which one?

Which graphics program are you using?

If other, which one?

Include your email address here:

Please add anything else you think might be important here, such
as a Windows error message you get:

Submit form:

Q: Do you have Macintosh support?

A: No.

Q: Which Programs does PhotoSwizzle Work With?

A: All of the PhotoSwizzle filters except Drop Shadow work with the
officially supported graphics editors. Drop Shadow works with some
but not all of them as shown in the following table. I know this list
is very old, but so am I and that's about all there is to say about it.

Paint Shop Pro, all versions (JASC)

Yes

PhotoImpact 6, 7 (Ulead)

Yes*

PhotoPaint 7 (Corel)

Yes

PhotoPaint 8 (Corel)

No

Photoshop 3 (Adobe)

No

Photoshop 4 or higher (Adobe)

Yes

Picture Publisher 8, 9, 10 (Micrografx)

Yes

*For PhotoImpact the proxy
sample doesn't show the effect but the advanced preview sample does. The
effect is applied correctly to the original image when the filter
dialog is closed. This bug is under investigation.

Q: Where's the free stuff?

A: With BorderMania 5.0 and PhotoSwizzle 3.0 it's all free.

Q: I downloaded and installed the free version, so why do I still get a
popup telling me that my temporary license has expired?

A: There is still an old version of the plugins lingering somewhere
on your computer. When two or more versions are installed in different
folders it's unpredictable which one the graphics editor will choose.
Use the Windows Search tool to find any files anywhere on your disk with
the pattern nvr*8bf. That will locate any old versions in plugin folders
that you don't know about. For example one of the file names is nvrph1.8bf.
Some distribution CDs that come with magazines install old versions in
folders that you wouldn't suspect at all. Delete all files that the Windows
Search finds then install the new free version again.